County counsel hits back in LAFCO letter

Just say no to corporate domination. Just say no to the corporate thug that wants to intimidate us with there legal team and million dollar budget trying to convince us their "conceptual" project is a good idea.

It is not right to exempt a potentially huge project from any environmental review or public hearings.

It we are foolish enough to vote this in, we won't find out what all the problems are until its too late. And the developer does not have to pay to fix them. That is just wrong.

Vote NO on Measure A.

DDR is mistaken if it thinks those of us on the coast support them. They are trying to railroad something through for their own benefit by stomping on the very procedures we have put in place to protect ourselves from this kind of political behavior. They might do well to consider the White property fiasco in Fort Bragg before making such a silly statement about resident support.

You Hippies and Liberals are so anti growth it makes me sick... It will create jobs and bring more money to the county that is already failing open your eyes put down your bong.

MRUkiah wrote:

You Hippies and Liberals are so anti growth it makes me sick... It will create jobs and bring more money to the county that is already failing open your eyes put down your bong.

Yes, I want one of those low wage retail jobs. That is worth giving up one of our best industrial sites for. We will never have a strong local economy if we sell our soul for low wage retail jobs. And with any luck at all we can have our share of traffic congestion, bad air quality, water and sewer problems and urban sprawl and increased crime that Las Vegas has.

PS: Just curious, are you from Las Vegas?

When will the governments actually represent the will of the people? Give us our shopping HERE so we dont have to waste the time, gas and production hours to travel to the that rich and glorious county next to this blighted and god-forsaken county of Mendo .... JUST DO IT!!!!

Eight Dollars an Hour you probably don't have a job unless it is trimming. If you want your air quality and no traffic go live with some foreign tribe out in the wild and dance around a fire all night. Its a part of life, we must grow if we want to strive. Oh and please do us all a favor and go by a stick of deodorant because there is nothing worst then when you hippies walk in to a local restaurant and stink up the whole place.

The former Masonite site is....
NO LONGER THE BEST SITE FOR HEAVY INDUSTRY IN MENDOCINO COUNTY.
Wow. I feel better now.
Put your industry somewhere other than out of my bedroom window!

I totally agree with No More Road Trips, we need to keep the money and shopping here! It is so tiring to have to travel to Santa Rosa to shop where you need to! We need change and our town is not shrinking, it is growing! The board doesn't want this because it isn't in the city limits! One board member actually made this comment awhile back to me personally! Keep the money here!!!!

Amen MRUkiah. Well put. It's always funny how those who don't want to work refuse to take "low paying" jobs. Any honest job that pays taxes is a job not only worth doing, but being proud of. Any of you with teenage and college kids probably saw how hard it was for them to find jobs this summer. My kid will never trim, and I would be proud to have him work in any retail store. It's called a start to an honest living. You same liberals ran off Masonite, and now you have the nerve to tout that property as future use for industry. Smoke another bowl and get out of the way of the taxpayers.

Nice to know there are so many good neighbors in the community. Before you make further posts perhaps you shoud read the McMichael report.

http://www.mendocinocountry.com/votersunion/D...

The entire report is worth reading but I will just paste the last part of the summary here.

By placing, this development on the ballot for approval of the voters DDR seeks to bypass
all of the requirements of the water assessment laws, assessments for understanding
the impacts on fire and sewer services, the environmental review process and other
county review processes that would be normal for a General Plan Amendment.
If this development occurs, without an assured source of water as required by SB 610 and
SB 221, present day service recipients in the Millview District could potentially see their
water availability reduced dramatically. This could mean that all of the water service
recipients within the territory of Millview CWD will have to proceed as if there is a
drought even in normal rainfall years. This seems an unfair burden to place on those
people. Proper review would avoid such possibilities.
County wide voters are being asked to vote on this development however, the impact
costs will not be shared county wide; all of the impacts and the associated costs will be
placed on the rate payers and service recipients of the districts that will be providing the
services. This does not seem to be appropriate, especially given that the developer will
not share in the costs of those impacts.
If this Initiative passes, we will have the majority of the voters of the County being
allowed to vote to place costs and impacts on a minority of people.
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This out of state developer is using the lure of shopping, and the "Empty Promise" of more jobs to get a free pass. It is a carrot. Don't let this bunch fool you.Why do you think they are trying to censor public officials who are speaking out against them. It isn't because they have your best interest at heart.

Their own bottom line is their first priority not you.

Vote NO ON MEASURE A

McMichael is NOT qualified to reach the conclusions he did.

McMichael was NOT clearly authorized to write that report by the LACFO board

McMichael is personally opposed to the DDR project, and his bias is abundantly clear in his "report"

McMichael has failed to do the work for which he was actually hired: Lafco work like the MSR's that were DUE YEARS ago by state law

McMichael has increased his budget so high that the small districts that have to pay his bill (us taxpayers) are struggling and begging for money with htings like chicken BBQ's just so he can spread his opinion on the DDR project through his role in LAFCO.

Please, read his BS report. You will see that he is full of it and has NO basis for the vast majority of his 'conclusions' which are nothing more than opinionated speculation.

Nice one sided article. I think every business in this county should close their doors, every home owner should walk away from their house, and every renter move out of county and let the ground go back to mother earth. Then maybe the hippies will be happy.

DON'T SPEND YOUR MONEY INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS OF UKIAH. TEACH THEM A LESSON ABOUT TAXES!

Mendo Reality wrote:

McMichael is NOT qualified to reach the conclusions he did.
McMichael was NOT clearly authorized to write that report by the LACFO board
McMichael is personally opposed to the DDR project, and his bias is abundantly clear in his "report"

And your qualifications to make that determination?

Why do you think the county went out on a limb to defend him. It is not in their best interest if he was guilty.They could have just told him to change the report.

The man is paid by tax dollars to do what is in the best interest of the citizens of Mendocino County.

Unlike DDR's attorneys who would like to censor him.

VOTE NO ON MEASURE A

I wonder if Ukiah City Council, the Board of Supervisors, SOLE, KZYX and the Ukiah Daily Journal, realize that they are pushing people further away from their side by not having logical, rational discussions and fair reporting. They aren't winning any battles and they certainly aren't winning the war on the so called Monster Mall

I wonder if McMichael would be so hot to fight the ineveitable if his old employer Parnum Paving was supplying building material for OUR new mall?.... or maybe they are and thats his agenda .... hmmmmmmm, dig deep!

Dang ---------- wrote:

I wonder if McMichael would be so hot to fight the ineveitable if his old employer Parnum Paving was supplying building material for OUR new mall?.... or maybe they are and thats his agenda .... hmmmmmmm, dig deep!

The man took on an International Corporation..... and you think it had something to do with Parnum Paving.

It is a little more like David and Goliath. It took one heck of a lot of guts. I doubt he would risk so much if he didn't believe what he said.

I doubt the county would take on DDR's deep pockets if they didn't know he was right.

No Representation wrote:

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And your qualifications to make that determination?
Why do you think the county went out on a limb to defend him. It is not in their best interest if he was guilty.They could have just told him to change the report.
The man is paid by tax dollars to do what is in the best interest of the citizens of Mendocino County.
Unlike DDR's attorneys who would like to censor him.
VOTE NO ON MEASURE A

Did I say I was qualified to make the scientific determinations that he did? No, I didn't. I'm not. Nor is McMichael. And he is NOT "aid by tax dollars to do what is in the best interest of the citizens of Mendocino County". He is paid with our tax dollars to do a specific job that is under LAFCO responsibility. He stepped WAY out of that realm with this bogus report. NO ONE short of those of you anti-everythings can read that thing and not walk away seeing the clear bias.

Ukiah needs to grow UP - not OUT.

Its called mixed use wrote:

The former Masonite site is....
NO LONGER THE BEST SITE FOR HEAVY INDUSTRY IN MENDOCINO COUNTY.
Wow. I feel better now.
Put your industry somewhere other than out of my bedroom window!

You must be one of those corporate clones. There are no residential areas next to Masonite. That is what makes it an ideal industrial site. It has the infrastructure for industrial and it is out of the flood plain. Plus it is on the railroad, which, like the timber industry, is coming back.

If we protect our best industrial site, it will provide jobs that can support a family, just as it did for 50 years. Once you zone it out of industrial it will come back and we will be stuck with a huge white elephant of a retail shopping center that will shut down many of our existing businesses. No thanks. Vote No on Measure A. It is a bad idea for local business and local jobs.

Tired of no choices wrote:

I totally agree with No More Road Trips, we need to keep the money and shopping here! It is so tiring to have to travel to Santa Rosa to shop where you need to! We need change and our town is not shrinking, it is growing! The board doesn't want this because it isn't in the city limits! One board member actually made this comment awhile back to me personally! Keep the money here!!!!

If the Board thought this would really bring money for the County, why would they want it in the City? Maybe they have looked at the traffic, air quality, sewer, water and other issues and realize it would be a huge drain on the County General Fund. Vote NO on Measure A, we can't afford to subsidize the developer.